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Tulle

Buccellati

Tulle

A half-millimetre sheet of gold pierced by hand into hundreds of minute hexagonal cells, so the metal reads like net lace.

Designer
Mario Buccellati
Idea
The gold band
School
Milan & Valenza
Materials
yellow gold, white gold, diamond

Tulle at Buccellati

The story

Mario Buccellati developed tulle openwork in the 1920s from the floral needle-lace of Venice. A goldsmith can spend close to a month sawing the cells into a single plate before an engraver finishes it. The lattice still carries the house's eternelle bands, such as Tulle Ghirlanda and Nuovo Tulle, and the ground behind Opera Tulle.

The ladder

  1. Signature Nuovo Tulle eternelle ring, white gold (JAUETE008626) Not published
  2. Top of line Tulle Ghirlanda eternelle ring, white gold with 110 diamonds (JAUETE006835) Not published

Prices as published by Buccellati in euros, October 2026.

Lineage

  • Opera

    Answered by · 2015

    Opera, Buccellati (2015)

    Opera Tulle lays the house's rosette over the honeycomb openwork Mario Buccellati developed in the 1920s.

  • Bee de Chaumet medium pendant in rose gold: an open circle of hexagonal honeycomb cells, some set with diamonds, on a fine chain, on a transparent ground.

    Answered by · 2011

    Bee de Chaumet, Chaumet (2011)

    Chaumet builds a whole line on the hexagonal cell, the honeycomb set side by side into bands, hoops and pavé.

  • Precious Lace Mini-Frou-Frou ring in rose gold: a scalloped lace flower of pear-cut and round diamonds, on a white ground.

    Answered by · 2016

    Precious Lace, Chopard (2016)

    Chopard also turns gold into lace, scalloped and set with diamonds into ruffles and waves.

If you love Tulle

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Image © Graff

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Image © Chopard

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Quatre Classique large ring: four joined bands in yellow gold, rose gold, white gold set with a row of diamonds, and dark brown PVD, on a white ground.
Image © Boucheron

Quatre

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Three B.zero1 four-band rings in rose, white and yellow gold with diamond-set edges, on embossed BVLGARI paper
Image © Bulgari

B.zero1

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Four Belle Époque band rings in white gold, set with emeralds, sapphires, rubies and diamonds alternating with diamonds, grouped at the left of a wide white banner
Image © Damiani

Belle Époque

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Antifer four-row ring in pink gold, each row rising to a point, on a light grey ground.
Image © Repossi

Antifer

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Two Jean Schlumberger Sixteen Stone rings, one in 18k yellow gold and platinum and one in platinum, round diamonds held by small crossed Xs, on a Tiffany Blue ground.
Image © Tiffany & Co.

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Image © Marco Bicego

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